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Twitter pranksters derail GPT-3 bot with newly discovered “prompt injection” hack. I’m quoted in this Ars Technica article about prompt injection and the Remoteli.io Twitter bot.

Posted 16th September 2022 at 6:33 pm

Recent articles

V&A East Storehouse and Operation Mincemeat in London - 27th August 2025
The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see - 15th August 2025
Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers - 15th August 2025

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